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Francis Parkman France and England in North America Vol 2 Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV A HalfCentury of Conflict Montcalm and Wolfe - Library of America
Author: Francis Parkman

This is the first of two volumes presenting all seven parts of Francis Parkman's monumental narrative history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Thirty years in the writing, Parkman's "history of the American forest" is an accomplishment hardly less awesome than the adventures he describes. This volume begins with the tragic ...  more »settlement of French Huguenots in Florida, then shifts north as explorers like Samuel de Champlain map the wilderness and wage savage forest warfare against the Iroquois; resolute Jesuits attempt to convert the Indians and suffer captivity, torture, and martyrdom in the wilderness; conflict rages in French Canada between religious extremists and fur traders. Dominating all is the fiercely indomitable La Salle, whose obsession with colonizing the Mississippi Valley leads to vast treks across the western prairie and assassination in a lonely Texas swamp.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780940450110
ISBN-10: 0940450119
Publication Date: 7/4/1983
Pages: 1,620
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Publisher: Library of America
Book Type: Hardcover
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